Do you know that your health at birth determines your lifelong health? Researchers examine the long-term impacts of fetal development during the latest talk in the Graduate Studies Seminar Series on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The Schulich School of Medicine & …
Month: September 2009
Extreme Canadian weather getting worse
It’s true – the weather is getting worse. Southern Ontario’s recent
encounter with deadly twisters was just one extreme event in an
apparently endless string of unusual or record-breaking weather
across Canada.
Business school groundbreaking
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new $100-million building to
house the Richard Ivey School of Business is scheduled for Thursday
(Sept. 10) at 2 p.m.
Bus service disruptions possible
London Transit is advising Western students and others who ride
city transit buses that there could be service disruptions as early
as Thursday, Sept 10.
Video: Live burn shows fire’s fury
Fire, Fire, Fire – Hey you, get out! The sign greeting more than
2,500 first-year students on University College Hill Tuesday
afternoon said it all, as Western’s Fire Safety and Emergency
Management team, along with London Fire Services, held its second
annual live burn.
She’s going back to school but can she read?
Approximately five million students will return to Canadian schools
this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to
graduate high school.
Welcome back students!
Piles of paper and school supplies, lineups at the campus
bookstore, and bright-eyed students wearing even brighter coloured
T-shirts parading across University Hill are signs the new academic
year is underway.
New McIntosh exhibition hours
The McIntosh Gallery is changing its exhibition hours beginning
Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Six honored by Royal Society
The University of Western Ontario has had six more faculty selected
as fellows in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Alzheimer’s research gets boost at Robarts
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced a
grant totalling more than a million dollars for Robarts Research
Institute’s Director
Football season-opener airing on Rogers
Mustang football fans don’t have to travel to Ottawa to have
front-row seats to the season-opening game against the Gee-Gees on
Sunday.
Tsujita wins provincial teaching award
University of Western Ontario assistant professor of Earth Sciences
Cameron Tsujita has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding
university teachers.
Those blinded by brain injury may still ‘see’
Except in clumsy moments, we rarely knock over the box of cereal or
glass of orange juice as we reach for our morning cup of coffee.
New research at The University of Western Ontario has helped unlock
the mystery of how our brain allows us to avoid these mishaps.
Extreme Canadian weather getting worse
It’s true – the weather is getting worse. Southern Ontario’s recent
encounter with deadly twisters was just one extreme event in an
apparently endless string of unusual or record-breaking weather
across Canada.
Business school groundbreaking
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new $100-million building to
house the Richard Ivey School of Business is scheduled for Thursday
(Sept. 10) at 2 p.m.
Bus service disruptions possible
London Transit is advising Western students and others who ride
city transit buses that there could be service disruptions as early
as Thursday, Sept 10.
Video: Live burn shows fire’s fury
Fire, Fire, Fire – Hey you, get out! The sign greeting more than
2,500 first-year students on University College Hill Tuesday
afternoon said it all, as Western’s Fire Safety and Emergency
Management team, along with London Fire Services, held its second
annual live burn.
She’s going back to school but can she read?
Approximately five million students will return to Canadian schools
this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to
graduate high school.
Welcome back students!
Piles of paper and school supplies, lineups at the campus
bookstore, and bright-eyed students wearing even brighter coloured
T-shirts parading across University Hill are signs the new academic
year is underway.
New McIntosh exhibition hours
The McIntosh Gallery is changing its exhibition hours beginning
Tuesday, Sept. 8.
Six honored by Royal Society
The University of Western Ontario has had six more faculty selected
as fellows in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).
Alzheimer’s research gets boost at Robarts
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced a
grant totalling more than a million dollars for Robarts Research
Institute’s Director
Football season-opener airing on Rogers
Mustang football fans don’t have to travel to Ottawa to have
front-row seats to the season-opening game against the Gee-Gees on
Sunday.
Tsujita wins provincial teaching award
University of Western Ontario assistant professor of Earth Sciences
Cameron Tsujita has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding
university teachers.
Those blinded by brain injury may still ‘see’
Except in clumsy moments, we rarely knock over the box of cereal or
glass of orange juice as we reach for our morning cup of coffee.
New research at The University of Western Ontario has helped unlock
the mystery of how our brain allows us to avoid these mishaps.